Table of Contents

Introduction
      Lydia N. YU-JOSE

The Primate City in Southeast Asia: Definitions and Colonial Origins 
     Robert REED

The Conversion of the Alani by the Franciscan Missionaries in China in the 14th Century
     Frank IKLE

Japanese Policy and the Indian National Army
     Joyce LEBRA

Korea, Focus of Russo-Japanese Diplomacy
      Ian NISH

Japanese Military Administration in Malaya - Its Formation and Evolution in Reference to Sultans, the Islamic Religion, and the Muslim Malays, 1941-1945
     Yoji AKASHI

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